Josh Radnor
Josh Radnor (born Joshua Thomas Radnor; July 29, 1974, Columbus, United States), aged 52, is an American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter. Notable films include How I Met Your Mother, Not Another Teen Movie and Hunters.
Josh Radnor’s zodiac sign is Leo, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Tiger, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Leo, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Wood Tiger, with 
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Josh Radnor’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Guardian
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Josh in the U.S.?
#1703
US rank in 2025
~17,288
Americans share it since 1880
1979
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Josh’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
3 · 1 · 4
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Sunday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Ruby, Ruby, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🌻 Sunflower · 🌸 Green Orchid
Sky blue · Gold · Botanical green
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Josh, according to the stars
Core essence
Josh is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Josh is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.
The vibe
Underneath, Josh is an optimist who needs the door left open. The Moon in Sagittarius feels best in motion, out in the world, laughing at the thing that went wrong. What Josh needs to feel safe is freedom and the truth, in that order. Try to contain them and they vanish; trust them and they come back every time.
How Josh wants to be loved
Josh wants to be loved like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. Josh gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.
How Josh creates
How Josh makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Josh creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.
Instinct
Instinct: Josh is bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Josh is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.
Triggers
Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Josh channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.
Computed from Josh's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Josh sits
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You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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Leo Sun
Leo SunWarm, loud, hard to ignore.
Josh Radnor's Sun was in Leo for the whole of July 29, 1974, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Leo readings associate the sign with warmth, visibility and generosity: a natural claim on attention and a habit of handing it back as encouragement. Astrologers describe it as the fixed fire sign, ruled by the Sun. The corresponding tension is pride, with the classical caution that the need to be seen can crowd out people who would rather not be.
Wood Tiger
Wood TigerLeads by moving.
Josh Radnor was born on July 29, 1974, which falls in a Wood Tiger year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Tiger readings emphasise courage, presence and the willingness to go first. The Chinese almanacs describe the Tiger as the sign others follow, bright and impulsive, at its best when the stakes are high. The corresponding caution in the tradition is burnout: a sign that burns brightly and, without pacing, burns out, with little left in reserve for the long middle of things.
Life Path 3
Life Path 3Charm with a deadline problem.
Josh Radnor's birth date, July 29, 1974, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 3 readings associate the number with expression: words, humour, performance and making things. Numerologists describe it as the path of the communicator, sociable and quick. The corresponding tension is dispersal, with the caution that many things begun and few finished is the classical pattern the tradition warns this number about.
What stands out in Josh’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Josh Radnor's date-only chart is Sun trine Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mercury, Venus and Saturn, sit together in Cancer, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Josh Radnor combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Guardian.
Josh’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Josh Radnor, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 10° to 22° Sagittarius depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.
stableMoonsquareJupiter0.0° to 6.3° orb
Josh’s feelings grind against their growth.
stableSuntrineNeptune0.3° to 1.3° orb
Josh’s core identity flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMercurytrineJupiter0.3° to 1.9° orb
Josh’s mind flows straight into their growth. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSunsextilePluto1.1° to 2.0° orb
Josh’s core identity opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableVenusconjunctionSaturn1.3° to 2.4° orb
Josh’s affections and discipline act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableNeptunesextilePluto2.3° to 2.4° orb
Josh’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableJupitertrineSaturn4.9° to 5.1° orb
Josh’s growth flows straight into their discipline. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableVenussquarePluto5.0° to 6.2° orb
Josh’s affections grind against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMercurysquareUranus5.1° to 6.6° orb
Josh’s mind grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMarssquareNeptune5.3° to 6.0° orb
Josh’s drive grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMercuryconjunctionSaturn5.4° to 6.8° orb
Josh’s mind and discipline act as one.
possibleMoonsextileUranusorb from 1.1° to 13.2° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed1 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Josh’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
Four minor bodies and the mean lunar apogee, placed in the same tropical zodiac as the planets above. None of these feed the chart signature, the rarity score or any ranking on this site: they are listed for readers who use them. Chiron, Ceres, Eros and Hygiea positions come from JPL Horizons; Black Moon Lilith is the mean apogee, the point most published Lilith tables use. The readings are the modern tradition’s, not AsterNym’s. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 24°30′
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: Josh may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.
⚳ Ceres ℞Pisces 14°17′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Pisces is read as nurture without a boundary: Josh is read as someone who feels what others need before they say it, and can give past the point of sense.
♡ ErosTaurus 9°07′ (moves 0.57° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Taurus is read as desire through the senses and through time. The reading has Josh wanting what can be touched, kept and returned to.
⚕ HygieaTaurus 6°24′ (moves 0.15° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Taurus is read as health through routine, food and rest. Josh is read as someone whose wellbeing tracks their habits closely.
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 8°46′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius is read as the outsider who chose it. The modern reading has Josh at odds with the group on principle and rarely lonely about it.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- Hygiea square Sun 0.3°
- Chiron opposition Uranus 0.5°
- Eros sextile Venus 1.1°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Neptune 1.8°
- Ceres trine Saturn 2.2°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Sun 2.6°
- Ceres conjunction Jupiter 2.8°
- Eros sextile Saturn 2.9°
- Eros square Sun 3.0°
Method: JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, 1700–2100, cubic Hermite interpolation; geocentric, true ecliptic of date, tropical; geometric (no light-time or aberration); Lilith = mean lunar apogee (Chapront/Meeus mean perigee + 180°).
Josh’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.
1. ☉ Sun7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; 2 major aspects
2. ☽ Moon4 pts
disposes Mercury, Venus, Saturn; 1 major aspect
3. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Mars; 3 major aspects
A Sun-led chart is read as identity out front: Josh is read as someone whose sense of self organises everything else.
How the score is built
- Rules the Sun sign, Moon sign or Ascendant sign: 3 points each (traditional co-rulers of Scorpio, Aquarius and Pisces score half).
- Sits in a sign it rules: 2 points.
- Disposes another planet (that planet sits in a sign it rules): 1 point each.
- Angular: 2 points in the first or tenth house, 1 point in the fourth or seventh (timed births only).
- Every major aspect it makes: 1 point.
Dominance scoring is an AsterNym method. Other sites weight differently and can name a different leader for the same chart.
Configurations in Josh’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile 30° (orb 2°), semi-square 45° (orb 2°), quintile 72° (orb 1.5°), sesquiquadrate 135° (orb 2°), biquintile 144° (orb 1.5°), quincunx 150° (orb 2.5°). Pairs already in a major aspect are not repeated. Moon excluded without a birth time.
- Jupiter biquintile Uranus 0.9°
- Saturn biquintile Neptune 0.9°
- Mercury semi-square Mars 1.8°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Josh Radnor, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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From the journal: What is feng shui? · Moon sign vs rising sign vs Sun sign
Josh’s cards
Every card is computed from July 29, 1974, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
甲
yang Wood
寅
Tiger
Wood
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
未
Goat
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Josh Radnor, so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.
Where this data comes from
Josh’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q223455, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept only at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
Portrait by vagueonthehow from Tadcaster, York, England, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Josh Radnor at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. Every entry is checked against its Wikidata record; where a person shares a name with someone else, the entity id is what settles which of them this is. What we will not tell you sets out the claims this site refuses to make.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by Josh Radnor.
Quick answers about Josh Radnor’s chart
- How old is Josh Radnor?
- Josh Radnor is 52 years old, born July 29, 1974 in Columbus, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Josh Radnor?
- Josh Radnor is a Leo: born July 29, 1974, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Tiger.
- What is Josh Radnor's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Tiger, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 29, 1974 birth.
- What time was Josh Radnor born?
- No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
- What is Josh Radnor's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology from the July 29, 1974 birth date.
- What is Josh Radnor's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 24°. Position from JPL Horizons for the July 29, 1974 birth date.
- Where is Josh Radnor's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 8°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Josh Radnor's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; 2 major aspects). Moon is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
